hello,I have a laptop with windows 7 that is just over a year old. I have never had any problems with it until this past week. I went on a vacation and had my laptop in a case for around 14 hours. When I got into my hotel room I started up my laptop and had the bluescreen display. I simply restarted it and everything seemed fine. I used my laptop regularly while away and it worked fine. I then took a 16 hour car drive home. Upon getting home my laptop once again went bluescreen. I decided just to restart it again thinking it was no big deal. The toshiba screen pops up as usual and then I am taken to a black screen with a white underscore blinking in the top left corner. I then hear a click from inside the laptop and the screen goes blank. The laptop stays on and I can hear the fans working on the inside, however, nothing is displayed. I have triedrestarting it multiple times and received the same results.Any help is appreciated.
Laptop won't start
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It might mean that the hdd has problem or the ram or...anyway insert a bootable windows in it and repair then restart it
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Alright lets see...if you can, remove the ram clean it and put it back, you can put it on after 5mins
I had the exact same problem with my toshiba a few months ago...
I'm not quite sure what you can do, but I tried various things like booting it up from an external hard disk with windows on it, but that failed, and nothing else seemed to work as well...
I had to put it in. Luckily I still had my waranty.
I'm not quite sure what you can do, but I tried various things like booting it up from an external hard disk with windows on it, but that failed, and nothing else seemed to work as well...
I had to put it in. Luckily I still had my waranty.
"Sounds like the BIOS boot order is wrong. When your computer is first turned on, you need to push either Del or F2 to go into the BIOS set up. In there there will be a menu item call Device Boot Order or something along those lines. If you go in to that item there will be the option to choose the order to boot which piece of hardware in. If Hard drive is one of the first items, push it up to number one. If that does not work then it could be the motherboard or harddrive is dying, meaning you will need to replace one or both of those items." - Techguys
You see when you start the puter you are able to see the bios image, this image is in another section that I can't remember (but not in your hard drive) Later on the puter just loads whatever is in your hard drive, say you have a fresh puter with nothing on it, well then you will start the computer and nothing will appear.
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Sorry to hear about that inchato.
Anyways, what you can do is look for tutorials on DIY hard drive removing, try to remove it and put it back in. Good luck.
This.
You see when you start the puter you are able to see the bios image, this image is in another section that I can't remember (but not in your hard drive) Later on the puter just loads whatever is in your hard drive, say you have a fresh puter with nothing on it, well then you will start the computer and nothing will appear.
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Sorry to hear about that inchato.
Anyways, what you can do is look for tutorials on DIY hard drive removing, try to remove it and put it back in. Good luck.
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Well, he can buy a new hard drive and make the damaged hard drive a slave hard drive and hook up the new hard drive as the primary hard drive. Then once he installs his OS onto the new hard drive he can just go into his old hard drive and still have his old data ect"Sounds like the BIOS boot order is wrong. When your computer is first turned on, you need to push either Del or F2 to go into the BIOS set up. In there there will be a menu item call Device Boot Order or something along those lines. If you go in to that item there will be the option to choose the order to boot which piece of hardware in. If Hard drive is one of the first items, push it up to number one. If that does not work then it could be the motherboard or harddrive is dying, meaning you will need to replace one or both of those items." - Techguys
This.
You see when you start the puter you are able to see the bios image, this image is in another section that I can't remember (but not in your hard drive) Later on the puter just loads whatever is in your hard drive, say you have a fresh puter with nothing on it, well then you will start the computer and nothing will appear.
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Sorry to hear about that inchato.
Anyways, what you can do is look for tutorials on DIY hard drive removing, try to remove it and put it back in. Good luck.
*nods* a spare hard drive is never wasted money, though it might not be the hard drive at all. It could be the mother board, makes me wonder if he had a BSoD, it would be wise to copy down the error code and google search it up.
THOUGH!
You could save money on car insurance by switching to Duck. Erm... what I mean is ask a tech, I'd rather pay 80 bucks to make sure its either the mother board, or the hard drive, or something else, that way you don't waste money on something that it might not be even repairable.
For instance, I used to have a puter with it's video card attached to the mother board, turns out the video
If it was a motherboard problem then when hey starts his computer he would get a black screen saying that it could not load the hard drive. He can till Re-install the system and depending on the OS it will let him partition the hard drive and install the OS onto the blank partition. Then after installation he can just get the files from the other partition which would have his old data on it.
Tho that depends on if it's not too damaged...